I love these little snippets of oddness about gigantic cities. The fact that there’s probably some city department in charge of the place is amusing.

Certainly the cormorants seem to enjoy it.

Also nice to see real estate interests don’t always win out or there’d be a thirty-five story luxury condo building there by now. (Granted they’d be 89 sq. foot condos but they’d still sell for half a million each because the five minute commute would rock…

The east river has some of the most treacherous water anywhere on the east coast. Plus a million coast guard boats and police boats. Drowning or getting arrested is a distinct possibility. It’s quite fun if you time it right but could definitely kill you.